International Symposium 2011: Diminishing Latin America's Inequalities: Land, Food and Human Health Strategies

Ernesto Cardenal Presents "The Origin of Species and Other Poems"

Presenter: Ernesto Cardenal interpreted by Mark Davis

Region: Central America
Student Learning in International Development Programming Abroad: A Structured Dialogue on Practices and Challenges

Presenter: Panel, Facilitated by Brett Berquist

Region: Global
Traditional Land Use Practices in Mexican Landscapes Promote Conservation of Biodiversity

Presenter: Jorge Leon-Cortes, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, San Cristóbal

Region: Central America
Economic Impact Evaluation of Improved Bean Varieties in Central America

Presenter: Byron Reyes, Michigan State University

Region: Central America
Religion, Art, and Politics in Chiapas: Tools of Resistance for the Indigenous Woman in Southern Mexico

Presenter: Mary DeLuca, Michigan State University

Region: Central America
Weaving in Public Spaces: Peruvian Indigenous Women in Social Entrepreneurship Ventures

Presenter: Paola Leon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Region: South America
Environmental Justice and Indigenous Communities: The Mediated Debate of Open-pit Mineral Mining in Guatemala

Presenter: Karina J. García-Ruano, Michigan State University

Region: Central America
Defying Inequality by Fortifying Communal Life: Experiences of “comunalidad” from Oaxaca

Presenter: Lois Meyer, University of New Mexico, Benjamin Maldonado, Integrated Communal High Schools, Oaxaca, Mexico

Region: Central America
Tribute to Emílio José de Castro e Silva Introduction of the Keynote Speaker

Presenter: Sherman Garnett, James Madison College, Michigan State University

Region:
Brazil’s Unified Health System May Promote Social Inequality: Paradox or Dialectic?

Presenter: Naomar Almeida Filho, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil

Region: South America
Global Reproductive Health Residency Training in Costa Rica: An International Experience for ObGyn residents

Presenter: C. Patricia Obando, Elizabeth Bogdan-Lovis, Michigan State University

Region: Central America
The Prevalence of Cervical Human Papillomavirus Infection in Brazilian Amazonia

Presenter: Hellen Fuzii, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil

Region: South America
Social, Medical, and Spiritual Outreach in the Displaced Community of Cristo Rey Barrio, Nicaragua

Presenter: Colleen L. Knecht, Munson Medical Center, Traverse City, Michigan

Region: Central America
Public Health Challenges of Yucatán

Presenter: Cuauhtémoc Sánchez, Secretariat of Health for Yucatán, México

Region: Central America
Pre-natal Influences on Acute and Chronic Diseases Later in Life: Global Health Crises Resulting from Biological and Cultural Evolution Collisions

Presenter: James Trosko, Michigan State University

Region: Global
A Traditional Mediterranean Diet Reduces Breast Cancer Risk through Changes in Metabolic Profiles of Endogenous Estrogens

Presenter: Giuseppe Carruba, University of Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Region: Global
Seroprevalence and Risk Factors of Hepatitis B and C in Riverside Families of the Brazilian Amazon

Presenter: Amanda Alves Fecury, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil

Region: South America
Gastric Cancer in Brazilian Amazonia: An overview and thoughts on intervention opportunities

Presenter: Paulo Assumpçao, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil

Region: South America
Education as a Public Health Strategy

Presenter: Alvaro Quijano, Secretary of Health for Yucatán, México

Region: Central America
Cultural Implications of Diabetes Prevention, Detection and Treatment Among Indigenous Peoples in the Highlands of Chiapas, México

Presenter: Enrique Eroza, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México

Region:
Unrealized Rights to Health: The Case of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Chiapas, México

Presenter: Héctor Sánchez Pérez, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México

Region: Central America
Mexico’s Strategy for Diminishing Malnutrition and Poverty

Presenter: Guillermo Storey Montalvo and Ermilo Contreras Acosta, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, México

Region: Central America
Roundtable Discussion and Closing Comments

Presenter: Facilitated by Reza Nassiri

Region: Global